"Every time we see a face, the brain adjusts our representation of that face so its size, viewpoint, and orientation is matched to faces stored in memory, just like computer face recognition systems such as those used by Facebook and Google." - Brad Duchaine

PBS is pleased to welcome new Assistant Professor Emily Finn, who joined our faculty in the summer of 2020. Professor Finn will be teaching PSYC 60: Principles of Human Brain Mapping with fMRI in winter 2021.

PBS is pleased to announce the addition of Professor Mark Thornton to our faculty in the summer of 2020. Professor Thornton will be teaching PSYC 10: Experimental Design, Methodology, and Data Analysis in Winter 2021 and PSYC 43: Emotion in Spring 2021.

2020 graduates from the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences PhD program receive awards from our department and from the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies.

The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences wishes to congratulate its 2020 psychology and neuroscience majors and minors. We are very proud to announce our high achieving department award winners and honors students.

PBS is pleased to welcome new Assistant Professor, Viola Störmer, who joins us this spring. Störmer's research aims at understanding the...

Post-doctoral researcher, Adam Steel has been selected from amongst 106 applicants for a Neukom Postdoctoral Fellowship through The Neukom Institute for Computational Science.

Assistant Professor, Alireza Soltani has been awarded a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award.

A recent paper by a research team including Professor Peter U. Tse, Professor Patrick Cavanagh, and Sirui Liu has been published in Current Biology and highlighted in Mind Matters.

Professor Tor Wager joined PBS in 2019 as the inaugural Diana L. Taylor 1977 Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience. Professor Wager leads the Breaking the Neural Code academic cluster.